Quantum Partners with Veeam
For accelerated ransomware recovery, end-to-end immutability, and air-gapped cyber resilience
Quantum Corporation announced its ActiveScale object storage software has extended its Veeam Ready qualifications.
Quantum’s new Veeam Ready qualifications include the ActiveScale 7.0 software that includes support for all-flash solutions for fast ransomware recovery and ActiveScale Cold Storage support of Veeam Archive Tier for low-cost, air-gapped retention of Veeam backups. These Veeam Ready solutions provide organizations cyber resilience with multi-layered protection to prepare, protect, and recover business-critical applications.
Simply deploy a Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository with ActiveScale with Cold Storage
(LTO Tape, Quantum Scalar i3 Tape Libraries) to achieve fast ingest, rapid recovery, and low-cost long-term retention.
ActiveScale object storage has long been recognized as a reliable Veeam Ready backup target, evolving alongside Veeam’s expanding object storage capabilities. Designed for fast recovery across multiple storage classes using flash, HDD, and tape, ActiveScale flexibly meets demanding recovery SLAs and economically addresses long-term retention of backups.
Recent advancements across the ActiveScale product portfolio strengthen its value within Veeam environments:
- The ActiveScale 7.0 release, which is Veeam Ready, includes support for all-flash configurations offering impressive restore performance to provide rapid recovery of mission-critical data for fast response to ransomware attacks, rogue actors, and other data risks. Based on an all-flash, scale-out architecture, ActiveScale 7.0 expands backup target resources (compute, networking and storage) for simple, scalable performance within a Veeam environment.
- The ActiveScale 7.0 Cold Storage feature is also qualified as a Veeam Archive Tier, providing access to all retained backups. Previous to Veeam Version 12.1, Archive Tiers were limited to public cloud storage services that are expensive to egress data, incur significant Internet and WAN costs, and are extremely slow. Restoring backups from ActiveScale Cold Storage is faster and up to 98% lower cost than public cloud offerings, extending the utility and value of the Veeam Archive Tier. Plus, with Veeam’s new Direct to Archive feature, backups can be sent directly from performance tier storage to the archive tier
(Scalar i3 Tape), further reducing overall costs and simplifying operations.
“With ActiveScale, organizations can feel at ease that all their data is immutable vs. cyber threats and recoverable in minutes and hours instead of days or weeks,” says Bruno Hald, VP, secondary storage, Quantum. “ActiveScale 7.0 provides fast restore performance now and in the future with easy scale-out expansion over time. ActiveScale 7.0 all-flash solutions are an ideal platform for deploying our ActiveScale Cold Storage feature to economically store Veeam Archive Tier backups for secure, immutable long-term retention.“
“The ongoing threat of ransomware attacks underscores the importance of cyber resilience as part of an overall Data Resilience strategy,” said Andreas Neurfert, VP of product management, alliances, Veeam. “The combination of Veeam Data Platform and Quantum ActiveScale delivers a unique, cyber-resilient solution for fast recovery, economic long-term retention, and peace-of-mind data immutability.“